Guild Wars 2

Hello all, I have several suggestions on the mechanism of a personal story reset.

OPTION 1: “Elixir of Forgetfulness” Gem Store item.

(Or something similar). As was proposed by Hegel.9182 in other forum thread, this is a great idea to have an option to completely reset your personal storyline. Upon purchasing this from the gem store and using the item. The game would need to confirm that you will be resetting your whole storyline progress and upon confirmation. You will be taken to the character creation ONLY on choosing your background and regrets again. After it is confirmed, the item is consumed and your existing personal storyline will be deleted, home instance progress will reset and you are starting on the first mission that comes out after the tutorial instance mission.

If the developers don’t want us to choose a different background then simply using the item will delete all existing personal storyline mission and have it start all the way back to the beginning that comes out after the tutorial instance mission without changing any background or regrets.

OPTION 2: “Replay” button on each of the completed Storyline mission.

In this option, you can replay any of the mission that you have done by simply opening the Hero page, under the Story tab, select the story that you want to replay, and click the button “Replay”. Then there will be a confirmation warning that says “Replaying your storyline will delete your current progress and will keep you from gaining rewards for the replayed missions”. Choosing yes will change the active quest icon from the current back to the start of the replayed mission. Any progress will be deleted, home instance will be reset to the earlier progress and new choices made will be stored over the previously chosen ones.

The catch is that once you go back to replay an earlier mission, you cannot select to replay any other mission that comes after the one you just click replayed. You can, however to replay an earlier story mission than the one you just selected.

Experience and rewards will not be given to avoid infinite exp loop and rewards abuse. But this only applies to the missions flagged as being replayed. Once it is progressed through a completely new mission for the first time, rewards can be obtained again.

Developers can implement a Gem Cost to the replaying part if you wish. Maybe, the further it is to replay a mission than from the current ones, the more expensive. (But not too expensive, I hope :P)

What do you guys think? Sorry for the long wall of text.